Deep Winter SeriesAny Donovan Creed Novel (It's not apocalyptic, it's just so cool)Lucifier's Hammer - over the top recommendation!Hunger games. Crap ending but... First book is very goodAmerican Apocalypse all books in the seriesThe Stand. (of course...)Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse

"And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale." - Thomas Jefferson, from a Letter to John Taylor written in 1816

"Unfortunately, it is in the nature of man to tinker - even with immutable truth. Thus, we must be ever vigilant... - James Munford

“It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.” - Francis Bacon

"Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths" - Aleksander Pushkin*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~I do not give negative Karma. I believe that all opinions are worthy of debate and discussion. Free speech is essential to the growth and advancement of each individual and all of Humankind.

Sho-Gun by ClavelleThe Facade by HeiserBlack Body by TurkDune by HerbertBe Here Now by Ram DassCreation by VidalSlaughterhouse Five By Vonneguttoo many favs to pick just one.Door into Summer by HeinleinEnders Game by CardI reccommend these to friendds.oh, and : I Married Adventure by Johnson (old book)The Works of RabelaisCandide by Voltaire- I need to stop now.

RingWorld by Larry Niven,I do not understand why Hollywood has not made this classic Sci-Fi into a movie, probably a good thing because they sure screwed up DUNE,Larry Niven also wrote a bunch of Louis Wu stories that Rock,Hollywood has not touched them, why ?Larry Niven grew up in Beverly Hills and was/is an Heir to a great oil fortune, so I suspect that he is pissed on by the Hollywood mutant lib entertainment crowd.Larry Niven Rocks !

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 13075653

James Cameron had the rights about 10 or 12 years ago, for a while at least. It's possible he still has them, I don't know. He really wanted to do it, but got side-tracked by a succession of other projects (eventually culminating in Avatar). For a while he was trying to do a couple of really big Mars related movies, and had even acquired the rights to Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy (great series, not as great as Ringworld, though). He was also working with Dr. Robert Zubrin, formerly of NASA on that project.

I think the reason Ringworld hasn't been made is because it's simply so enormously epic in scale that it would be very difficult to do justice to. You mentioned how the screwed up Dune, and you're right, and I think it's maybe sort of the same problem. I guess the story of Ringworld is much more contained than that of Dune, but Ringworld doesn't really work unless you are able to accurately convey the unimaginable scale of the Ringworld structure, itself. Even on the big screen, I think it would somehow be lost. In the mind of a reader, it does work.

Quoting: LifeInDeath

The scale is one thing, but there's another aspect of Ringworld that really stands out to me, Louis Wu's interior struggle against the wire. That is some great writing about addiction and I just don't know what kind of footage you can get out of him sitting there drooling. But his terrible problem and Niven's great description of it and how it really drives a lot of the plot, is what makes that book really special to me.

Similar to Case's addiction to cyberspace in Neuromancer - it is very tangible and a source of motivation for action, it is central to the concepts in the book but pretty cerebral and subjective for the big screen.

"And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale." - Thomas Jefferson, from a Letter to John Taylor written in 1816

"Unfortunately, it is in the nature of man to tinker - even with immutable truth. Thus, we must be ever vigilant... - James Munford

“It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.” - Francis Bacon

"Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths" - Aleksander Pushkin*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~I do not give negative Karma. I believe that all opinions are worthy of debate and discussion. Free speech is essential to the growth and advancement of each individual and all of Humankind.

I've read and enjoyed many of the books mentioned here. No duds imho! From classics to literary fiction to sf/fantasy, glpers have good taste. Read "Tales of the Dying Earth" by Jack Vance. George RR Martin has acknowledged that this collection was his inspiration. It is MASSIVE fun!

I am totally a human bookworm....I have so many "favorites" that I can't really pin one down....

That being said, however, the book that ALWAYS comes to mind when someone asks a question like this is "Lamb: The Gospel According To Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal." By Christopher Moore.

Fabulous read......

Quoting: Dried Up Hag

Agreed, love that book :)

"Chaos exists as a pool of possibilities that order draws from and organizes according to creative desire. Some things get tossed down the memory hole only to reemerge later when the need arises. Neither chaos nor order holds a monopoly on creation and destruction, creative or destructive chaos exists as does creative and destructive order." - ME! Yeah, Bea :) snoocherdoodle@gmail.com